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TWO - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, July 7, 2010 Music in the Parks to be held July 12 The Official Newspaper of the City of Heppner and the County of Morrow Heppner GAZETTE-TIMES U.S.P.S. 240-420 Morrow County’s Home-Owned Weekly Newspaper Published weekly by Sykes Publishing, LLC and entered as periodical matter at the Pont Office at Heppner. ( begun under the Act of March 3,1879. Periodical postage paid at Heppner, Oregon. Office at 188 W. Willow Street. Telephone (541) 676- 9228 Fax (541) 676-9211 E-mail: editor!« rapidserve net or david « rapidserve net Web site: www.heppner.net Postmaster send address changes to the Heppner liazette- Times, P.O. Box 337, Heppner, Oregon 97836. Subscriptions: $27 in Morrow County; $21 senior rate (in Morrow County only; 62 years or older), $33 elsewhere; $27 student subscriptions. David Sykes................................. .............................................................. Publisher Autumn M organ............................................................................................. Editor All News and Advertising deadline is Monday at 5 pm . For Advertising advertising deadline is Monday at 5 p.m. Cost for a display ad is $5 per column inch C ost for classified ad is 504 per word Cost for Card of Thanks is $10 up to 100 words Cost for a classified display ad is $5.75 per column inch. For PubliciLegal Notices public/legal notices deadline is Monday at 5 p.m Dates for pub lication must be specified Affidavits must be required at the time of Submission Affidavits Skweez the Weezel & Celtic Dancers will perform on July 12 at the Boardnian Marina Park. -Contributed Photo require three weeks to process after last date of publication (a sooner return date must be specified if required) For Obituaries Obituaries are published in the Heppner G T at no charge and are edited to The Music in the Parks series will continue on Monday, July 12, at Boardman Marina Park at 7 p.m. M usical guests will be Skweez the Weezel & Celtic Dancers. Music in the Parks is funded by the Morrow County Unified Recreation District and PGE. The event is sponsored by North Morrow Community Foundation and Irrigon Watermelon Festival and is presented each year by MP5+. meet news guidelines Families wishing to include information not included in the guidelines or who wish to have the obituary wntten in a certain way must purchase advertising space for the obituary. For Letters to the Editor: Letters to the Editor M U ST be signed by the author The Heppner G T will not publish unsigned letters All letters M UST include the author s address and phone number for use by the G T office The GT reserves the right to edit letters The GT is not responsible for accuracy of statements made in letters Any letters expressing thanks will be placed in the classifieds under "Card of Thanks' at a cost of $10. McDowell-Burnside engagement announced 2010 Athena Caledonian Games to be held The 2010 Athena Caledonian Games will be held Friday, July 9, through Sunday, July 11. Many events will be spread out over the three days including parades, competitions, stories, food and music. Events begin at 5:30 p.m. on Friday and will go through Sunday afternoon. McDaniel family reunion to be held The McDaniel family reunion will be held on Sunday, July 18 at noon by the fireplace at Anson-Wright Park. A potluck will be held. Those planning to attend are asked to bring beverages, table service, and chairs. For more information call M aryetta Baker at 541-676-5276. Brian Burnside and Danielle McDowell Bill and M erilee McDowell of Heppner an nounce the engagement of their daughter, Danielle Marie McDowell, to Brian Henry Burnside. Brian is the son of Tom and Laura McElligott of Heppner and the late Howie Burnside. Danielle is a 2001 graduate of Heppner High School. She received her B.A. in psychology from the Uni versity of Oregon in 2005. She currently works at Bi-Mart in Eugene as a nationally certi fied pharmacy technician. She plans to apply to pharmacy school at Oregon State Uni versity in 2011. Brian graduated from Heppner High School in 1998. He is a crew boss for a wild land firefighting and timber service company, Miller Tim ber Services in Philomath. Brian also logs for them in the off season. The couple met in Heppner in 2001 and will exchange vows September 18, 2010, at First Baptist Church in Eugene. "The Palace" Play DVDs for Sale! DVDs o f the recent Dinner-at-tbe-Cem etery pi-cxjudion "The Palace" are now for sale. yProceecjs o f sales will be donated to the * Heppner Day Care. To or4er contact Sharon Harrison at 989- 84-96 or Doris Brosnan at 676-5382 or leave a message with name an4 phone number. Office desk, credenza and chair Nearly brand new All for only $850 Contact David Sykes Heppner Gazette-Times • 541-676-9228 Editor s Note: The follow ing article was submitted by Sheree Smith o f the Morrow C o u n ty H e a lth D e p a r t ment Let’s set the record straight, once and for all: V accine does not cause autism. Period. Andjnow, England’s General Medical Council has found that the English doctor who formu lated this dangerous theory acted “dishonestly and ir responsibly” — so much so that they stripped him o f his medical license. Back in 1998, An drew W akefield w rote a paper theorizing a link be tween the measles-mumps- ru b ella vaccin e (M M R ) and autism, based on blood samples he took o f eight children with autism at his son’s birthday party. “The L ancet” , a British m edi cal journal, published that paper, and it took 12 years for the journal to retract it as pure bunk. But the damage had already been done. In 1998, 90 percent o f children in England received the MMR vaccine. After “The Lan cet” published Wakefield’s article, immunization rates across Europe plummeted w hile d isease outbreaks increased. Since then, at least two dozen scientific Make a lifelong friend from abroad. will not happen. Not vac cinating, however, leaves a child vulnerable to dis eases that can cause perma nent damage, even death. Im m unization m ay have eradicated sm allpox, but there are other diseases out there— some ju st a plane ride away, others right in our own communities. In 2009, there were 284 c ases o f w h o o p in g cough reported in Oregon, but future outbreaks can be avoided w hen people m ake the choice to im munize. It’s important for concerned parents to ask many questions about vac cine so they can make the decision that is best for their child and their community. As public health officials and scientists, we also ask questions. We want all Or egon residents to be safe and healthy. This is what w e’ve learned: -The MMR vaccine does not cause autism. -Thimerosal, a pre servative once used regu larly in vaccine, does not cause autism. Klaus fr o m G erm a n y Ì 7 yrs. U n e s lim p i n g in d p l.i\m g m h u t K la u t dream has b ie n to « pend a school year in the I SA. w w w .asse.com or em ail to hostinfo@ asse.com Founded in 1976 ASSE International Student Exchange Program i% a public benefit, non-profit organization -H aving m ultiple vaccines is safe, even for newborns. -V accine d o e sn ’t weaken or overwhelm the immune system, but diseas es can make children more susceptible to illness. -Natural infection o f a disease like chicken pox may lead to immunity, but not without significantly more risk than getting vac cinated. Chicken pox could lead to pneumonia; measles could lead to death. Parents m ust de cide for themselves whether to vaccinate their children. Who will you trust — the Andrew Wakefields o f the world, or the quiet but dedi cated medical researchers whose names most of us will never know? The scourges of childhood didn’t go away on their own. They went away because o f the patient work o f forgotten heroes, laboring in laboratories and conducting clinical trials, who foresaw the day when people like us w o u ld n ’t worry w hether our child was next. EOU foundation scholarship applications available online C ollege students seeking financial assistance from the Eastern Oregon University Foundation will apply for scholarships com pletely online beginning in September. There are 69 differ ent scholarships adminis tered by the EOU Founda tion. Utilizing a new online portal, students will create an account enabling them to apply for all EOU Founda tion Scholarships with one convenient application. The During the months of Juno a July PGG Propane w ill in sta ll your new residential above ground propane tank at Plus your first years tank rental fee w ill be Cathy Halvorsen 541-422-7107 1-800-733-2773 4 studies involving hundreds o f thousands o f children have refu ted the p o s tu lated connection between vaccines and autism. One study included all 537,303 children bom in Denmark between January 1991 and Decem ber 1998. Another report studied the recipients o f 3 million doses o f MMR vaccine. No study corrobo rated Wakefield’s claim. But the fear per sists; som e parents still hesitate to vaccinate their children. Sadly, delaying or w ithholding vaccines will not lessen the risk o f autism; it will only increase the amount o f time during which children are at risk for v a c cin e -p re v en ta b le diseases. And all the time and money spent on defend ing the false connection between vaccine and autism could have been used for real research on autism. In O regon, m ost parents vaccinate their chil dren on time. But for those who are concerned that vac cine may cause autism in their children, that simply NO COST! Enrich your tamil) with another culture. Now you can host a high school exchange smdent (girl or boy) from France, Germany, Scandinavia, Spain, England. Japan. Brazil, Italy or other countries. Becoming a host to a young international visitor is an experience of a lifetime! l ike*« *>knng swimming. cLiming «imi .tri H.tnn.i hope«* to gnn j Unirvi < luh 4 while in rhe 1 SA Her employment with the M orrow C ounty S chool Valetta “Jo” Burt, District began at the district 65, o f Heppner died Thurs office and later she worked day, July 1,2010 at Pioneer in the Special Education M em orial H o sp i system. She retired tal in H eppner. A in 2007. graveside memorial She e n service will be held jo y e d v o lu n te e r at 11 a.m. on Thurs ing at the Morrow day, July 8, 2010 at C ounty M useum , Beulah Cemetery in gardening, being in Troy, ID. A memo the mountains and spending time with rial service will be Valetta “Jo held in Heppner at Burt her friends, and es a later date. pecially time with her grandchildren. She w as bom on December 16, 1944 Mrs. Burt was a member in Pendleton, the daugh o f St. P a trick ’s C atholic ter o f C harles and Ruby C hurch in H eppner, Big Humphreys Umbarger. At Meadow Club and White age three she moved with Pine Riders, both in Troy, her fam ily to from Pilot ID. She is survived by: Rock, to Troy, ID where she was raised and attended her husband A1 B urt o f school graduating in 1963. Heppner; sons, A lfred C. She then attended Links Burt and his wife Jeannie Business School in Boise, o f Chapel Hill, TN, Tony ID. After graduation from Burt o f Portland, and Andy Links she worked for the Burt and his partner Larissa R.O.T.C. at the University o f H eppner; sister Janet o f Idaho. In 1970 she went O ’Connor and her husband to work for First Security Jim of Moscow, ID; brother, Bank in St. Marys, ID. Lael U m b arg er and his On June 20, 1970 wife Kris o f Reno, NV; six she married Alfred B. Burt grandchildren; and numer at Moscow, ID. The couple ous nieces and nephews and moved to Montana in 1974 cousins. w here she collected fire She was preceded weather data for the United in death by her parents and States Forest Service. In a sister Carolyn Kay. M em orial contri 1978 they moved to Gold Beach, and then to Heppner butions may be m ade to the Pioneer Memorial Long in 1979. In 1980 she started Term Care Unit, PO Box 9, a day care business which Heppner, Oregon 97836. Sweeney Mortuary continued until 1984 when she beg an w o rk in g for o f Heppner is in charge of Spicer-Kuhn Law Offices. arrangements. Valetta “Jo” Burt “Vaccine does not cause autism” H o st an E xch an ge Student Today! Hanna ftnnt Norway ; I6yr$. Obituaries process will be very acces sible and easy to complete, said Melanie Noell, finan cial aid counselor at EOU. “Students will be able to submit their tran scripts and resumes online, and there are built-in fail- safes to make sure all the necessary docum ents are included,” Noell said. “We expect to see the number of complete applications in crease and the process will be more competitive.” Making the transi tion from paper to electron ic applications is something the Financial Aid Office at EOU is planning to imple ment for other university scholarships in the future. The annual dead line for EOU Foundation scholarship applications is February 1. Online appli cations will be accessible via the main Financial Aid website at www.eou.edu/ fao/. For more information contact M elanie Noell at 541-962-3551.
